It pairs with appetizers, mature cheese, Ragusano DOP cheese, cold meats, red and white meats, pig. Nero D’Avola red grapes , also called “Calabrese”, are a very old Sicilian grape variety. It has always been grown on hillsides of the Hyblaean Mountains in the province of Ragusa. The second name attributed to it, that is to say “Calabrese”, is nothing but an Italianization of a word in Sicilian dialect, “Calaurisi”, which is composed of two words, “cala” (a Sicilian word to refer to grapes) and “aurisi” (a Sicilian word which stands for the Italian “Avolese” and it means “from Avola”).